Catja Hamilton

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    Biography

    Catja is a freelance Lighting Designer working predominantly in theatre, but with an interest in all art forms. She co-runs Airlock Theatre and is a former Creative Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre and Resident Designer at NDT Broadgate.

    Previous productions include: 'The Turn of the Screw' (Waterperry Opera Festical); 'Utoya' (Arcola Theatre); 'Pansexual Pregnant Piracy' (Soho Theatre); 'The Mosinee Project' (New Diorama Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe); 'Bougie Lanre's Boulangerie' (Talawa Theatre Company); 'The Wolf, The Duck, and The Mouse' (Unicorn Theatre); 'Passing' (Park Theatre); 'The Oyster Problem' (Jermyn Street Theatre); 'Paradise Lost' (The Shipwright); 'Hot Gay Time Machine' (Soho Theatre). 

    She has also worked as an Associate and Assistant on productions at the Hampstead Theatre and Southwark Playhouse, live-streams for the Young Vic, and was the inaugural Creative Team Associate in Lighting on the Regent's Park Open Air Theatre's production of 'Romeo and Juliet' in May 2021.

    Specialisms

    Theatre:
    • Regional (Studio)
    • Small Scale Touring
    • Fringe / Pub Theatre
    • Education Establishment
    • Touring relights
    Musical:
    • Small Scale / Fringe
    • Education Establishment
    Opera:
    • Small scale
    Education:
    • Workshops

    Previous productions

    Show name Type Venue/Company Role Creative Team Opened
    Wyld Woman: The Legend of Shy Girl Theatre Southwark Playhouse (Little) Lighting Designer Director: Cameron King
    Set designer: Lucy Fowler
    Semele Opera Opera Holland Park
    Waterperry Opera Festival     		Lighting Designer Director: Rebecca Meltzer
    Set designer: Jennifer Gregory
    Semele Opera Amphitheatre, Waterperry Opera Festival Lighting Designer Director: Rebecca Meltzer
    Set designer: Jennifer Gregory
    1.17am Theatre Theatre503 Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Stacey
    Set designer: Anna Kelsey
    Ugly Sisters Theatre Soho Theatre Upstairs
    Piss Carnation     		Lighting Designer Director: Joanna Pidcock
    Set designer: Cara Evans
    King of Pangea Musical King's Head Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Richard Israel
    Set designer: Carly Brownbridge
    Puppy Theatre King's Head Theatre
    Relish Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Kayla Feldman
    Set designer: Roisin Jenner
    The Mosinee Project Theatre New Diorama Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Nikhil Vyas
    Set designer: Grace Venning
    ...Earnest? Theatre Say It Again, Sorry? Lighting Designer Director: Simon Paris
    Set designer: Trynity Silk
    Count Dykula Theatre Soho Theatre
    Airlock     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Set designer: Caitlin Mawhinney
    Acid's Reign Musical Mainhouse - Pleasance London
    Relish Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Luke Howarth
    Set designer: Caitlin Mawhinney
    Oh My Pain, My Beautiful Pain! Theatre Mainhouse - Pleasance London
    Relish Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: John King
    The Maids Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Annie Kershaw
    Set designer: Cat Fuller
    Basic Bald B*tch Theatre Brixton House Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Stacey
    Set designer: Anna Kelsey
    Utoya Theatre Arcola Studio 2
    Riva Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Stacey
    Set designer: Caitlin Mawhinney
    The Turn of the Screw Opera Amphitheatre, Waterperry Opera Festival
    Waterperry Opera Festival     		Lighting Designer Director: Rebecca Meltzer
    Set designer: April Dalton
    The Mosinee Project Theatre New Diorama Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe
    Counterfactual     		Lighting Designer Director: Nikhil Vyas
    Set designer: Grace Venning
    Love in Gravitational Waves Theatre Talawa Studio - Fairfield Halls, then touring
    Talawa Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Brigitte Adela
    Set designer: TK Hay
    Bougie Lanre's Boulangerie Theatre Talawa Studio - Fairfield Halls, then touring
    Talawa Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Philip J Morris
    Set designer: TK Hay
    Pansexual Pregnant Piracy Musical Soho Upstairs
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Set designer: Caitlin Mawhinney
    Scarlet Sunday Theatre Omnibus Theatre
    Aslant Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Imy Wyatt Corner
    Set designer: Cat Fuller
    Protest Theatre Traverse Theatre, then touring
    Fuel     		Touring Re-Lighter Lighting designer: Ali Hunter
    Director: Natalie Ibu
    Set designer: Amy Jane Cook
    The Pursuit of Joy Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Brigitte Adela
    The Wolf, the Duck, and the Mouse Theatre Clore Studio, Unicorn Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Rachel Bagshaw
    Set designer: Male Arcucci
    Passing Theatre Park Theatre, Park 90
    Want The Moon     		Lighting Designer Director: Imy Wyatt Corner
    Rip Van Winkle Opera Hoxton Hall
    Gothic Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Evangeline Cullingworth
    Set designer: Elliott Squire
    Sorry We Didn't Die at Sea Theatre Park Theatre - Park90
    The Playwright's Laboratory     		Lighting Designer Director: Daniel Emery
    Set designer: Alys Whitehead
    Birthright Theatre Finborough Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Scott Hurran
    Set designer: Raphaella Philcox
    Wonderdrug Theatre Pleasance Courtyard Lighting Designer Director: Helen Eastman
    Set designer: Mollie Cheek
    Public: The Musical Musical Pleasance Courtyard
    Stroud & Notes     		Lighting Designer Director: Hannah Sands
    Set designer: Tara Usher
    The Importance of Being... Earnest? Theatre Pleasance Courtyard & UK Tour, then touring
    Say It Again, Sorry?     		Lighting Designer Director: Simon Paris
    Set designer: Trynity Silk
    Agrippina Opera Jackson's Lane Theatre
    Hampstead Garden Opera     		Lighting Designer Director: Ashley Pearson
    Set designer: Sorcha Corcoran
    Acid's Reign Theatre The Flair Ground, VAULT Festival
    Relish Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Luke Howarth
    Set designer: Caitlin Mawhinney
    Wonderdrug Theatre King's Head Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Helen Eastman
    Set designer: Mollie Cheek
    SNAIL Theatre The Cage, Vault Festival Lighting Designer Director: Imy Wyatt Corner
    Set designer: Cat Fuller
    Five Years With The White Man Theatre The Studio, Vault Festival
    Unleash The Llama     		Lighting Designer Director: Sam Rayner
    Wonderdrug Theatre Network Theatre, Vault Festival Lighting Designer Director: Helen Eastman
    Set designer: Mollie Cheek
    The Oyster Problem Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Philip Wilson
    Set designer: Isabella Van Braeckel
    Scratches Theatre The Cage, Vault Festival
    Plain Heroines     		Lighting Designer Director: Gabriella Bird
    Cybil Service Theatre The Flair Ground, VAULT Festival Lighting Designer
    Anansi the Spider Theatre Weston, Unicorn Theatre Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Jai Morjaria
    Director: Justin Audibert and Alice Wordsworth
    Set designer: Sadeysa Greenaway-Bailey
    Lesbian Space Crime Theatre Soho Theatre Upstairs
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Set designer: Cory Shipp
    Cassandra Theatre Omnibus Theatre
    Live Canon     		Lighting Designer Director: Helen Eastman
    Set designer: Neil Irish
    Time and Tide Theatre Stage Two, Norwich Theatre Royal, then touring
    Relish Theatre     		Lighting Designer Set designer: Caitlin Abbot
    Paradise Lost Opera The Shipwright Lighting Designer Director: Joseph Winters
    The Boatswain's Mate Opera Arcola Studio 1, then touring
    Spectra Ensemble     		Lighting Designer Director: Cecilia Stinton
    Set designer: Ellie Roser
    Shake the City Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Amie Burns-Walker
    Duck Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Imy Wyatt Corner
    The Anarchist Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Ebenezer Bamgboye
    Set designer: Caitlin Mawhinney
    Urinetown: The Musical Musical Bridewell Theatre
    International College of Musical Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Kenneth Avery-Clark
    Dolly Theatre Park Theatre, Park 90 Lighting Designer Director: Emily Aboud
    This Last Piece of Sky Theatre The Space Lighting Designer Director: Sibylla Archdale Kalid
    An Intervention Theatre Riverside Studios
    Murmuration Studios     		Lighting Designer Director: Alice Wordsworth
    Another America Theatre Park Theatre, Park 90 Lighting Designer Director: Joe Winters
    Definitely, Maybe, Actually, Nevermind Theatre The Space
    Haus of Bollix     		Lighting Designer Director: Kate Bauer
    Serena Flynn: Lizard King Theatre Camden People's Theatre, then touring Lighting Designer Director: Evie Fehilly
    Set designer: Roisin Martindale
    The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein Theatre Jermyn Street Theatre Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Ali Hunter
    Director: Edward Einhorn
    Set designer: Machiko Weston
    Running With Lions Theatre Lyric Hammersmith
    Talawa Theatre Company     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Aideen Malone
    Director: Michael Buffong
    Set designer: Soutra Gilmour
    Best of Enemies: Best Seat In Your House Broadcast Theatre Young Vic & online Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Paule Constable
    Director: Jeremy Herrin
    Set designer: Bunny Christie
    The 4th Country Theatre Park Theatre, Park 90
    Plain Heroines     		Lighting Designer Director: Gabriella Bird
    Set designer: Jida Akil
    Hamlet: Best Seat In Your House Broadcast Theatre Young Vic & online Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Aideen Malone
    Director: Greg Hersov
    Set designer: Anna Fleischle
    How We Love Theatre Theatre Peckham
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Tuna Theatre Alexandra Palace
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Patient Light Theatre The Undercroft
    Eastern Angles     		Lighting Designer Director: Scott Hurran
    Set designer: Peter Butler
    Dumbledore Is So Gay Theatre Pleasance Theatre Main Stage Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    Director: Tom Wright
    Set designer: Natalie Johnson
    I Have Heard You Calling in the Night Theatre Union Theatre
    Baylis Productions     		Lighting Designer Director: Sibylla Archdale Kalid
    Hot Gay Time Machine Theatre Soho Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Lucy Moss
    How We Love Theatre Arcola Outside
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    The Establishment versus Sidney Harry Fox Theatre Above the Stag
    Boys of The Empire     		Lighting Designer Director: Glenn Chandler
    Romeo and Juliet Theatre Regent's Park Open Air Theatre Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Ciaran Bagnall
    Director: Kimberley Sykes
    Set designer: Naomi Dawson
    Take Care Theatre Network Theatre, Vault Festival
    Écoute Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Zoe Templeman-Young
    How We Love Theatre The Cage, Vault Festival
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    The 4th Country Theatre The Crypt, Vault Festival
    Plain Heroines     		Lighting Designer Director: Gabriella Bird
    Tuna Theatre The Studio, Vault Festival
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Venus and Adonis Theatre CLF Art Cafe Theatre
    New Renaissance Collective     		Lighting Designer Director: Sam Rayner
    Set designer: Nik Corrall
    Shook Theatre Southwark Playhouse 'The Little'
    Papatango Theatre Company     		Assistant Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Johanna Town
    Director: George Turvey
    Set designer: Jasmine Swan
    Botticelli in the Fire Theatre Hampstead Theatre Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Johanna Town
    Director: Blanche McIntyre
    Set designer: James Cotterill
    She Sells Sea Shells Theatre Iron Belly
    Scandal and Gallows Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Madeleine Skipsey
    Tuna Theatre King's Head Theatre
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Maklena Theatre Camden People's Theatre
    Night Train Theatre Company     		Lighting Designer Director: Maria Montague
    Set designer: Nikki Charlesworth
    The Flies - Les Mouches Theatre The Bunker Theatre
    Exchange Theatre     		Production Electrician Lighting designer: Julien Bernard Grau
    Director: David Furlong
    Set designer: Ninon Fandre
    A Girl, Standing Theatre Theatre503
    Back Talk Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Liam Blain
    Set designer: Anna Reid
    ERIS Theatre The Bunker Theatre
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Set designer: Natalie Johnson
    Maklena Theatre Cambridge Junction, then touring
    Night Train Theatre Company     		Associate Lighting Designer Lighting designer: Rory Beaton
    Director: Maria Montague
    Set designer: Nikki Charlesworth
    Rabbit Theatre Theatre N16
    Protocol Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Wife Theatre OSO Arts Centre, Jermyn Street Theatre
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Hot Gay Time Machine Non-professional Corpus Playroom Lighting Designer Director: Lucy Moss
    Hamlet Non-professional ADC Theatre & on tour round Europe, then touring
    Cambridge European Theatre Group     		Lighting Designer Director: Emma Blacklay-Piech
    Kursk Non-professional Bedlam Theatre
    Airlock Theatre     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Set designer: Jack Parham
    Madwomen in the Attic Non-professional C nova
    Plain Heroines     		Lighting Designer Director: Gabriella Bird
    Lagoon: The Cambridge Footlights International Tour Show Non-professional ADC Theatre, Assembly Roxy, and US tour
    Cambridge Footlights     		Lighting Designer Director: Tom Fairbairn
    West Side Story Non-professional ADC Theatre
    Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club     		Lighting Designer Director: Ellie Coote and Tom Taplin
    Measure for Measure Non-professional Cambridge Arts Theatre
    The Marlowe Society     		Assistant Lighting Designer Lighting designer: William Reynolds
    Director: Tom Littler
    Set designer: Simon Kenny
    Tribes Non-professional ADC Theatre Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Set designer: Jack Parham
    A Midsummer Night's Dream Theatre C Cubed
    Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club     		Lighting Designer Director: Sarah Stacey and Chloe Slattery
    Titus Andronicus Non-professional C+2 Edinburgh Festival Lighting Designer Director: Gregory Forrest
    Othello Non-professional ADC Theatre
    Cambridge University Amateur Dramatic Club     		Lighting Designer Director: Robbie Taylor Hunt
    Set designer: Emily Barker
    Cabin Pressure Non-professional Corpus Playroom
    The Fletcher Players     		Lighting Designer Director: Marthe de Ferrer and Joe Winters
    Attempts on Her Life Non-professional Corpus Playroom Lighting Designer Director: Tania Clarke
    Contact method Details
    Email address catjahamilton@gmail.com